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The way we think is both our greatest tool - indeed our only tool - and very often it is also our biggest leash. We are only who we think we are. Our opportunities are also limited by who other people think we are. It stands to reason that if we’d like to change who we are, we must start with an effort to change our thinking. Read more here

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August 25th, 2018

While shopping for a pair of binoculars, or a pair of eyeglasses, we take a look at all of them, on the shelf or on the rack.

Then we pick up a pair.

We look through it, assess how everything looks through that set of lenses, and then put them down. We pick up a different pair, and look at the world through that set.

If we so desire, we may try them all.

After we have made a tour of them, we may see them all again, aligned next to one another and weigh the pros and cons of each. This one has more zoom. That one has a finicky focusing mechanism. This one is a good general all-purpose.

Often space and finances limits us to purchasing just one, maybe two pairs of binoculars or eyeglasses.

The different perspectives through which we can decide to look at the world, however, are not limited by finances nor space.

Unfortunately we do not have the visceral experience of having all possible perspectives nicely laid out on a shelf or a shop display.

We cannot pop off our emoji eyes like some kind of potato head and look at them to realize: Oh, wow, I’m really angry! Or, oh, I look so sad!

It might not be as visceral as opening up a trunk of different eyes and selecting which one we would like, but this is precisely within our ability.

The myriad sets of binoculars, or eyeglasses, or microscopes or telescopes, or emoji-potato-head eyes exist within our brains as mental dispositions.

It is possible to disregard the experience of a feeling of intense anger and decide to look at a situation with more patience.